I love these kids so much that when one of them is hurting, I hurt. If more than one is hurting, I feel like I'm dying. I can fix things for little kids, but the big kids have to start solving their own problems. That's part of growing up, right? Oh, growing pains or so painful for this mama! At least we had a perfect evening where my heart was so full of love for these guys that it nearly exploded...
This afternoon, Ian soaped up the trampoline!
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| Lula slipped big time! |
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| Heidi asked Ian to spray her...and didn't like it |
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| Jason didn't seem to mind |
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| Lula loved being sprayed from under the trampoline! |
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| This scares me, but Ian is really good at back flips |
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| Jason was so cute...he wanted to keep up with Ian and Daniel so bad. |
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| He'll grow up too fast too. |
Shane is gone for the weekend on the SSS Odyssey. This is the sailing season and the Sea Scouts have charters almost every weekend! It's strange not having him around, just like it was strange having Ian gone all week when he started high school. Ian's gone all week, Shane's gone all weekend. One by one, these guys are starting to leave my nest and I don't like it. I like keeping my babies close. I just have to learn to let them go slowly like this mama:
She lets her little one day old gosling out from under her to go walk around even though there are turkeys and chickens nearby. The two geese that sat next to her had all their eggs stolen by a little raccoon over several nights. It's a miracle we were able to chase it off the night before this little gosling hatched.
